Michael mccarty



(No Model.)

M. McOARTY.

FASTENING FOR TIED PACKAGES.

No. 332.924. Patented'Ded..ZZ, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

MICHAEL MCOARTY, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

FASTENING FOR TlED PACKAGES.

@JPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,924, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed May 20, 1885. Serial No. 166,190. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL MOGAETY, of Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, haveinvented a new and Improved Fastening for Tied Packages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in or comprises a novel device, constituting a new article of manufacture, for inclosing and securing the tied or knotted ends of strings or cords used in tying packages of merchandise or other articles whereby the package cannot be untied or opened and tied up again without breaking or destroying the device used to inclose and secure the tied or knotted ends of the strings or cords, thus leading to detection and exposure of any unauthorized opening of the package.

The fastening, which constitutes an easilyapplied folding seal to and over the tied or knotted ends of the string or cord, will be found of great use by retail dealers and others, as the same will act as a check or preventive to the opening of the package by curious or dishonest domestics and others after the goods have been bought and before or after they have been delivered. The invention, however, is not restricted to any particular kind of tied packages, or to any description of goods contained within them.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face view, and Fig. 2 a section on the line as m, Fig. 1, of a tied package with my folding seal-fastening applied thereto before said fastening is closed over the knotted or tied ends of the string. Fig. 3 is a face view of the seal fastening when closed on or over the tied ends of the string, showing also a portion of the package. Fig. 4 is a section of the fastening on the line 3 y in Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a face View of the fastening before it is applied to the package,and with certain reenforcements shown in Fig. 1 omitted.

A indicates a package secured,when closed, by crossing and tying it with a string or cord, B, in the usual or any suitable manner, b representing the knot securing the tied ends of the string.

0 is the fastening for inclosing and securing the knot 12. This fastening, which may be made of paper or any suitable material, is in the form of a folding seal having a series of flaps with mucilage applied to their faces or backs, and arranged to close one down upon or over the other, and over the knot after the body'or center portion of the seal has been slipped and adjusted under the knot. Thus a indicates the body or center portion of the seal-fastening, of quadrilateral shape, and c d e f flaps arranged to project, respectively.from the several marginal portiors of said body part, with mucilage s applied to the faces or backs of the flaps or certain of them. These several flaps are so shaped and proportioned relatively to each other and at their junction with the center part of the seal as to admit of the crossing of the string or cord between them without interfering with the edges of the flaps when folded or turned over one upon the other, as shown in Fig. 3. If desired, re-enforcements 9, of paper or leather or other material, may be applied to the center part, a, of the seal at its junction with the flaps to prevent the seal from being cut or torn by the string. Said seal-fastening is first slipped under the string B on the package and adjusted so that the knot b lies centrally, or thereabout, on or over the body part a of the seal, and so that the crossed string B passes in between the flaps. The flap c is then turned down over the knot 71, then the flap d, having its adhesive face dampened, shut and pressed down over and on the first closed flap, c, then the flap 6 closed and cemented by wetting its mucilage on the flap d, and finally the flap'f similarly shut down and stuck on the flap 6, thus perfectly inclosing and securing the knot or tied ends of the string, and so that the string cannot be untied without tearing or destroying the seal-fastening.

Having thus described my invention, what I ing composed of a center or body piece, and flaps on the side edges of said piece adapted to close and fasten by adhesive material, one over or upon the other and over the knot of the string, substantially as specified.

2. In afolding seal-fastening for the knotted or tied ends of cords or strings on packages, the flexible seal 0, composed of a quadrilateral body or center piece, a, and having flaps c, d, e, and f, constructed to close adhesively one over or upon the other with the knot of the string in between them and the body, essentially as described.

3. In a folding seal-fastening for the knotted or tied ends of strings on pakages,the combi- 5 nation of the re-enforcements gwith the body or center piece, a, of the fastening,having flaps c d cf, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.

MICHAEL MOCARTY.

Witnesses:

HENRY N. WARD, Wu. D. LAKE. 

